Practical, savvy, and wide-ranging, this resource shows men and women how to avoid the pitfalls that turn a straightforward divorce into a nightmare. Drawing on her own personal experience, the author also brings together the best advice from a wide range of experts that include divorce attorneys, mental-health professionals, and financial gurus. This guide coaches separating couples how to build a shortlist of the best divorce attorneys in their area, how to conduct an interview to find the right one, and what the full range of legal options are for each case. Further tips explain how to manage the paperwork, ways to lower legal costs, and practical advice for getting back to "normal" once the divorce is finalized. This reassuring manual also explains the stages of divorce grief and how to separate the emotional divorce from the legal divorce.
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"Comprehensive and well done. Highly recommended." —Library Journal
"Invaluable perspectives that will bring comfort and understanding to anyone making the myriad decisions involved in a divorce." —Jon M. Garon, dean and professor of law, Hamline University School of Law
"Offers personal insight into her own experience balanced with professional advice from leading divorce professionals." —Marketwire
"A clear step-by-step process to boost self-confidence and sharpen judgment." —Jewish Free Press
"Follow this book's advice and you will save a lot of heartache, misery, and money." —Dr. Richard A. Warshak, author, Divorce Poison: Protecting the Parent-Child Bond from a Vindictive Ex
"The best advice." —Toronto Star
About the Author
Deborah Moskovitch is the creator and facilitator of The Smart Divorce, a consulting service that provides tools and strategies for individuals contemplating or going through divorce. She has been divorced for 10 years and conducts workshops to help others through theirs.
Product Details
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Chicago Review Press; 1 edition (July 1, 2007)
Deborah Moskovitch is a Divorce Coach supporting people in having a positive outcome from their divorce, for a hpapier and healthier future. She understands divorce because she has been through her own seven-year sturggle that ended more than 10 years ago. That process inspired Deborah to hunt for healthier, less painful ways to manage the divorce process and share it with others. Since then, she researched and shared proven strategies and advice from 100 of North American's top divorce lawyers, financial advisors, counselors and other experts in her best selling resource book, The Smart Divorce, now in its third printing.
Responding to the deman for "neutral" support, Deborah founded her company, The Smart Divorce® to provide informative resources, support coaching and powerful education tools to empower and free people during this difficult time. As a Divorce Coach, she provides private one-on-one coaching, events, and other unique divorce support services for individuals and for organizations across North America. The Smart Divorce® is your one stop shop for cost effective divorce support. She's in your camp!
Deborah's goal is always to help you get through your divorce smarter with your family, your finances and your sanity intact, while saving you time and money. She remains curious and questioning, as an online radio host, of the popular Radio Show, The Smart Divorce on Divorce Source Radio and as a regular columnist for the Huffington Post and More Magazine. In addition, she is a public speaker and media contact who is in frequent demand. She has been interviewed on more that 40 television and radio shows, and is widely quoted in Canadian and U.S. print and online publications.
Deborah holds degrees in economics and business administration from Toronto's York University. As an advocate for giving back, she is active in her local Canadian and United States communities where she is: * On the Ontario board of directors of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), an international association of professionals dedicated to improving the lives of children and families through the resolution of family conflict; and a recipient of the AFCC-O 2012 Distinguished Service Award. * On the virtual workgroup of the Honoring Families Initiative of IAALS, dedicated to empirically informed models to ensure greater accessibility, efficiency, and fairness in divorce and child custody matters. * On the advisory panel/Divorce Team for Women Moving On in Florida. * A founding board member of the Neuro Family Law Insitute, created with a vision of transforming family law into a more positive experience for separating families.
To contact Deborah email info@thesmartdivorce.com or call 905 695 0270.
There are times when one can learn the most, not from the professionals, the book-worms or professors, but from one who has been through what lies ahead for you and your family if you do not get good sound advice. Such is the Smart Divorce. The author, Deborah Moskovitch, masterfully leads the reader through the quagmire of turmoil that she too endured. The Smart Divorce is a clear reminder that Divorce is a life altering event. Moskovitch points out that the emotional factors are often more telling then the legal issues. You need to deal with both aspects of divorce: Legal and Emotional. This book is an excellent guide on doing just that from the inception of a separation, hiring an attorney, going through the system, trying to resolve issues by ADR and much much more. As a fellow author of a book on much of the same subject matter, it is abundently clear that Moskovitch knows what she is talking about. This book is a must read especially for those who are at the beginning stages of divorce and for those who are in the thick of it as well as for those who are ready to move on. As an attorney myself, I found the ways to save on attorney fees and related costs to be particullary useful for those not so accustomed to getting raked over the coals by costly litigation. I will recommend this book to all of my family law clients. Read it and you will see why.
